Nov 2, 2018 Light heavyweight world titleholder Artur Beterbiev’s defense against Joe Smith Jr. will take place on Dec. 15 at Madison Square Garden in New York, their promoters told ESPN. The fight will take place on the undercard of unified middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez’s rise in weight to challenge secondary super middleweight titlist

10:20 PM ET Junior featherweight contender Diego De La Hoya has been a professional prize fighter since 2013 but has never had a chance to fight in his hometown of Mexicali, Mexico or even in his home country. That will change when De La Hoya, the 24-year-old first cousin of Hall of Famer and promoter

Oct 31, 2018 Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Josh Taylor begins his World Boxing Super Series campaign against Ryan Martin on Saturday, hoping it will finish against another American in Regis Prograis.

6:32 PM ET For over a decade, Nonito Donaire has been one of the most recognizable fighters in boxing’s smaller weight divisions, as he won world titles in four weight classes from flyweight to featherweight, and five divisions if you count the interim belt he claimed as a junior bantamweight. He faced several top opponents,

5:02 PM ET When light heavyweight contender Sullivan Barrera, who has defeated notable opponents such as Joe Smith Jr., Karo Murat and Felix Valera, finally got a shot at a world title things did not go well. Barrera fought his heart out but was outclassed in a 12th-round knockout loss to Dmitry Bivol in March.

8:44 AM ET Tyson Fury has revealed his wife Paris said he was “too fat” to make a return to heavyweight boxing. Appearing on Showtime’s Below the Belt with Brendan Schaub, lineal heavyweight champion Fury spoke of the moment he decided to make a return to the ring following a 31-month absence. “I called my

8:53 PM ET Mikey Garcia vacated one of his lightweight world titles on Tuesday, a signal that he is moving closer to going up two weight divisions for the fight he has said he has wanted for months — a big-money showdown with welterweight world titleholder Errol Spence Jr. Garcia, who still holds the WBC

9:40 AM ET Associated Press GENEVA — The presidential election to lead the amateur boxing association, with its recognition by the Olympic movement potentially at stake, will now have two candidates. The Court of Arbitration for Sport delivered an urgent ruling on Tuesday clearing Serik Konakbayev of Kazakhstan with valid nominations to stand for president

1:43 PM ET Opening Bell: Jacobs’ future Let’s get one thing clear right off the bat: Unified middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez, he of the record-breaking five-year, 11-fight, $365 million contract with new sports streaming service DAZN, is the one who is going to call the shots in the division until further notice. He’s boxing’s

12:10 AM ET NEW YORK — Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has always loved the idea of taking the shows he is promoting in the United States as part of his long-term deal with new sports steaming service DAZN to cities all over the country in the way he has done with the cards he